Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
8-Jul-2023: DPIIT organizes roundtable interaction on “Exploring the India Toy Story”
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and Invest India, in collaboration with the Toy Association of India, successfully organized a roundtable interaction on “Exploring the India Toy Story”, today in New Delhi. This event coincided with the 14th edition of the India Toy Biz International Expo - one of the largest toy fairs in the country - and brought together prominent global and domestic toy manufacturers, retailers, associations, and government officials to discuss the burgeoning opportunities in the domestic toy sector.
Performance Grading Index (PGI)
7-Jul-2023: Ministry of Education releases report on Performance Grading Index 2.0 for States/UTs for the year 2021-22.
The Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with about 14.9 lakh schools, 95 lakh teachers, and nearly 26.5 crore students from varied socio-economic backgrounds. Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, devised Performance Grading Index (PGI) for States and UTs which assesses the performance of school education system at the State/UT level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis. The PGI - States/UTs was first released for the year 2017-18 and so far, has been released up to the year 2020-21.
Over the period, many of the indicators in PGI – States/UTs have been outlived and become redundant. Also, the structure of PGI – States/UTs has been heavily tilted towards the indicators related to Governance Processes rather than the quality indicators. Therefore, to have more updated base with quality indicators, to align with new initiatives of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, to monitor indicators relating to Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to replace existing indicators which have achieved optimal target, the PGI – State structure for 2021-22 has been revised and renamed as PGI 2.0. In PGI 2.0 , the data source for many of the indicators has been the data from UDISE+ and the grades have been aligned with the PGI - District to have uniformity and better comparability.
International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH)
7-Jul-2023: Three-day International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH) 2023 Concludes in New Delhi
The Government of India, in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), successfully concluded the three-day International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH) 2023 on Friday at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
The Valedictory Session of the Conference, jointly organized by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, CSIR, and the Office of Principal Scientific Advisor, featured esteemed speakers including Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs; Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Science and Technology and Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office as well as Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Shri Amitabh Kant, the G20 Sherpa during India's Presidency year; Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India; Shri Bhupinder Bhalla, Secretary, MNRE; and Shri Vinit Mittal, Chair, CII Task-force on Green Hydrogen. The valedictory session can be watched here.